Product Changelog
Additions and updates to the SBMG service
June ‘24
Android
Version 1.2 released
- Improved connectivity and reliability for delivery of messages. Testing has seen 99.5% delivery in sample runs up from batches of 1 to 500 messages.
- Message deduplication to avoid repeated sends of a requested message of the previous 5000 messages sent in a session.
- Login improvements disabling login button while processing device registration.
- Background server usage improvements.
Web App
- Expanded reporting data avaliable with all messsages loaded improved from the previous 50.
- Composer destination improvements:
- Broader acceptance parsing phone number formats to improve compatiblity with your existing contact lists
- E.164 (e.g.
+6427001002
) phone number validation highlighting in composer. - Contact limit counter display on composer.
- New CSV validation helper tool. Upload a CSV export from another system such as Google Contacts or Salesforce to prepare contact lists for messaging.
- Background improvements from the API (see below).
API
Another larger background change that has been in the works and is ready to rollout. This will enable a lot of planned improvements across the SBMG service.
- All API endpoints have had infrastructure uplifted for improved engineering management.
- New API endpoint pattern (e.g.
/report
→/v1/reporting/detail
) to allow more features provided on our api, see API reference for details. - API changes are backwards compatible with your integration using our original API (released and requiring no customer change). Original SBMG endpoints will be supported to at least Jan 2025. Planned API feature improvements in the pipeline will be avaliable on new endpoints which will provide value to you in any api upgrades you make.
- New endpoints:
- GET
/v1/reporting/usage
to retrieve a summary of your account usage e.g. capacity, consumed capacity, message fragements, usage rollover date. - GET
/v1/reporting/webhook
to list all your webhooks with the assigned labels and ids. When creating webhooks you can now set labels to for reference of what your webhook is for.
- GET
March → May ‘24
A busy few months with lots of development in the background and internally testing improvements to our platform. We have an Android update in flight iterating alongside significant backend improvements with the target of a June release. For now though, we have some nice upgrades for web users:
Web App
- Sim options selector fixed for sending on dual sim setups
- Navigation update for visual clarity. See the page you are going to select and the page you are on easily
- Big reporting upgrade with a fresh new look and new additions
- Messaging summary metric widgets
- Quick visualisation of messaging with daily inbound and outbound charts
- Easy access filters for direction and status
- Refreshed table UI
- Instant sorting, just select the column header you want ordered.
- Clearer reporting quick action options for Boost and Pro users. Export CSV and quick compose actions are now directly above your report table. This also comes with flexibility improvements so you can now select a single/multiple/all records for follow-up/reply messages or export instead of the previous single message selection.
Febuary ‘24
Android
Version 1.1 released
- Dual sim support. If your phone has multiple sim slots this enables you to have multiple contact numbers for messaging use cases, for example you can have one number for sales & marketing while the other line is reserved for customer support.
- Improved app background activity responsiveness
- A collection of stability improvements (session management, sending processes, support logging)
Web App
- Sim optionality in sending with carrier and phone number details
API
- Supports sending option of sim slot in requests. See docs
- Fixes to message sending performance and error handling.
January ‘24
Web App
- Walkthrough of setup and sending your first message in minutes here
API
Integrations
- New guides and example integrations with email2sms and api avaliable here
December ‘23
Android
- Check for gateway updates in setting
- Remote call forwarding configuration
- Device registration support metadata
Web App
- Call forwarding configuration in settings
- Password reset capability added
- Significant improvement to sending response time (clicking send to submission) from ~12 seconds to less than 2 seconds
API
/sms
response time improvements (as seen in the web portal)/sms
returns the gateway’s message id in200
response- Architectural improvements
November ‘23
Android
- Background login refresh
- Report status
Web App
- Usage reporting
- Plan data consumed
- Forecasted total usage
- Plan capacity details
- Summary metrics of total messages sent and traditional SMS fragments
- New message send statuses as reported by SMS modem
- Reporting column formating improved particularly around dates
- Reporting actions improved removing SBMG sender id signature from generated template
More improvements and new features are in the pipeline and we’d love to here what matters to you. Please email us your suggestion at support@sbmg.app.